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#include <glib.h> void g_test_minimized_result (double minimized_quantity, const char *format, ...); void g_test_maximized_result (double maximized_quantity, const char *format, ...); void g_test_init (int *argc, char ***argv, ...); #define g_test_quick () #define g_test_slow () #define g_test_thorough () #define g_test_perf () #define g_test_verbose () #define g_test_quiet () int g_test_run (void); void g_test_add_func (const char *testpath, void (test_funcvoid) ()); void g_test_add_data_func (const char *testpath, gconstpointer test_data, void (test_funcgconstpointer) ()); #define g_test_add (testpath, Fixture, tdata, fsetup, ftest, fteardown) void g_test_message (const char *format, ...); void g_test_bug_base (const char *uri_pattern); void g_test_bug (const char *bug_uri_snippet); void g_test_timer_start (void); double g_test_timer_elapsed (void); double g_test_timer_last (void); void g_test_queue_free (gpointer gfree_pointer); void g_test_queue_destroy (GDestroyNotify destroy_func, gpointer destroy_data); #define g_test_queue_unref (gobject) enum GTestTrapFlags; gboolean g_test_trap_fork (guint64 usec_timeout, GTestTrapFlags test_trap_flags); gboolean g_test_trap_has_passed (void); gboolean g_test_trap_reached_timeout (void); #define g_test_trap_assert_passed () #define g_test_trap_assert_failed () #define g_test_trap_assert_stdout (soutpattern) #define g_test_trap_assert_stdout_unmatched (soutpattern) #define g_test_trap_assert_stderr (serrpattern) #define g_test_trap_assert_stderr_unmatched (serrpattern) #define g_test_rand_bit () gint32 g_test_rand_int (void); gint32 g_test_rand_int_range (gint32 begin, gint32 end); double g_test_rand_double (void); double g_test_rand_double_range (double range_start, double range_end); #define g_assert (expr) #define g_assert_not_reached () #define g_assert_cmpstr (s1, cmp, s2) #define g_assert_cmpint (n1, cmp, n2) #define g_assert_cmpuint (n1, cmp, n2) #define g_assert_cmphex (n1, cmp, n2) #define g_assert_cmpfloat (n1,cmp,n2) #define g_assert_no_error (err) #define g_assert_error (err, dom, c) typedef GTestCase; typedef GTestSuite; GTestCase* g_test_create_case (const char *test_name, gsize data_size, gconstpointer test_data, void (data_setupvoid) (), void (data_testvoid) (), void (data_teardownvoid) ()); GTestSuite* g_test_create_suite (const char *suite_name); GTestSuite* g_test_get_root (void); void g_test_suite_add (GTestSuite *suite, GTestCase *test_case); void g_test_suite_add_suite (GTestSuite *suite, GTestSuite *nestedsuite); int g_test_run_suite (GTestSuite *suite);
GLib provides a framework for writing and maintaining unit tests in parallel to the code they are testing. The API is designed according to established concepts found in the other test frameworks (JUnit, NUnit, RUnit), which in turn is based on smalltalk unit testing concepts.
Test case |
Tests (test methods) are grouped together with their fixture into test cases. |
Fixture |
A test fixture consists of fixture data and setup and teardown methods to establish the environment for the test functions. We use fresh fixtures, i.e. fixtures are newly set up and torn down around each test invocation to avoid dependencies between tests. |
Test suite |
Test cases can be grouped into test suites, to allow subsets of the available tests to be run. Test suites can be grouped into other test suites as well. |
The API is designed to handle creation and registration of test suites and test cases implicitly. A simple call like
g_test_add_func ("/misc/assertions", test_assertions);
creates a test suite called "misc" with a single test case named "assertions", which consists of running the test_assertions function.
In addition to the traditional g_assert()
, the test framework provides
an extended set of assertions for string and numerical comparisons:
g_assert_cmpfloat()
, g_assert_cmpint()
, g_assert_cmpuint()
, g_assert_cmphex()
,
g_assert_cmpstr()
. The advantage of these variants over plain g_assert()
is that the assertion messages can be more elaborate, and include the
values of the compared entities.
GLib ships with two utilities called gtester and gtester-report to facilitate running tests and producing nicely formatted test reports.
void g_test_minimized_result (double minimized_quantity, const char *format, ...);
Report the result of a performance or measurement test.
The test should generally strive to minimize the reported
quantities (smaller values are better than larger ones),
this and minimized_quantity
can determine sorting
order for test result reports.
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the reported value |
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the format string of the report message |
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arguments to pass to the printf() function
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Since 2.16
void g_test_maximized_result (double maximized_quantity, const char *format, ...);
Report the result of a performance or measurement test.
The test should generally strive to maximize the reported
quantities (larger values are better than smaller ones),
this and maximized_quantity
can determine sorting
order for test result reports.
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the reported value |
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the format string of the report message |
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arguments to pass to the printf() function
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Since 2.16
void g_test_init (int *argc, char ***argv, ...);
Initialize the GLib testing framework, e.g. by seeding the
test random number generator, the name for g_get_prgname()
and parsing test related command line args.
So far, the following arguments are understood:
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list test cases available in a test executable. |
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provide a random seed to reproduce test runs using random numbers. |
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run tests verbosely. |
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run tests quietly. |
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execute all tests matching |
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execute tests according to these test modes:
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debug test logging output. |
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gtester-specific argument. |
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gtester-specific argument. |
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gtester-specific argument. |
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Address of the argc parameter of the main() function.
Changed if any arguments were handled.
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Address of the argv parameter of main() .
Any parameters understood by g_test_init() stripped before return.
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Reserved for future extension. Currently, you must pass NULL .
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Since 2.16
int g_test_run (void);
Runs all tests under the toplevel suite which can be retrieved
with g_test_get_root()
. Similar to g_test_run_suite()
, the test
cases to be run are filtered according to
test path arguments (-p testpath
) as
parsed by g_test_init()
.
g_test_run_suite()
or g_test_run()
may only be called once
in a program.
Returns : |
0 on success |
Since 2.16
void g_test_add_func (const char *testpath, void (test_funcvoid) ());
Create a new test case, similar to g_test_create_case()
. However
the test is assumed to use no fixture, and test suites are automatically
created on the fly and added to the root fixture, based on the
slash-separated portions of testpath
.
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Slash-separated test case path name for the test. |
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The test function to invoke for this test. |
Since 2.16
void g_test_add_data_func (const char *testpath, gconstpointer test_data, void (test_funcgconstpointer) ());
Create a new test case, similar to g_test_create_case()
. However
the test is assumed to use no fixture, and test suites are automatically
created on the fly and added to the root fixture, based on the
slash-separated portions of testpath
. The test_data
argument
will be passed as first argument to test_func
.
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Slash-separated test case path name for the test. |
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Test data argument for the test function. |
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The test function to invoke for this test. |
Since 2.16
#define g_test_add(testpath, Fixture, tdata, fsetup, ftest, fteardown)
Hook up a new test case at testpath
, similar to g_test_add_func()
.
A fixture data structure with setup and teardown function may be provided
though, similar to g_test_create_case()
.
g_test_add()
is implemented as a macro, so that the fsetup()
, ftest()
and
fteardown()
callbacks can expect a Fixture
pointer as first argument in
a type safe manner.
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The test path for a new test case. |
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The type of a fixture data structure. |
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Data argument for the test functions. |
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The function to set up the fixture data. |
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The actual test function. |
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The function to tear down the fixture data. |
Since 2.16
void g_test_message (const char *format, ...);
Add a message to the test report.
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the format string |
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printf-like arguments to format
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Since 2.16
void g_test_bug_base (const char *uri_pattern);
Specify the base URI for bug reports.
The base URI is used to construct bug report messages for
g_test_message()
when g_test_bug()
is called.
Calling this function outside of a test case sets the
default base URI for all test cases. Calling it from within
a test case changes the base URI for the scope of the test
case only.
Bug URIs are constructed by appending a bug specific URI
portion to uri_pattern
, or by replacing the special string
's
' within uri_pattern
if that is present.
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the base pattern for bug URIs |
Since 2.16
void g_test_bug (const char *bug_uri_snippet);
This function adds a message to test reports that
associates a bug URI with a test case.
Bug URIs are constructed from a base URI set with g_test_bug_base()
and bug_uri_snippet
.
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Bug specific bug tracker URI portion. |
Since 2.16
void g_test_timer_start (void);
Start a timing test. Call g_test_timer_elapsed()
when the task is supposed
to be done. Call this function again to restart the timer.
Since 2.16
double g_test_timer_elapsed (void);
Get the time since the last start of the timer with g_test_timer_start()
.
Returns : |
the time since the last start of the timer, as a double |
Since 2.16
double g_test_timer_last (void);
Report the last result of g_test_timer_elapsed()
.
Returns : |
the last result of g_test_timer_elapsed() , as a double
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Since 2.16
void g_test_queue_free (gpointer gfree_pointer);
Enqueue a pointer to be released with g_free()
during the next
teardown phase. This is equivalent to calling g_test_queue_destroy()
with a destroy callback of g_free()
.
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the pointer to be stored. |
Since 2.16
void g_test_queue_destroy (GDestroyNotify destroy_func, gpointer destroy_data);
This function enqueus a callback @destroy_func()
to be executed
during the next test case teardown phase. This is most useful
to auto destruct allocted test resources at the end of a test run.
Resources are released in reverse queue order, that means enqueueing
callback A before callback B will cause B()
to be called before
A()
during teardown.
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Destroy callback for teardown phase. |
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Destroy callback data. |
Since 2.16
#define g_test_queue_unref(gobject)
Enqueue an object to be released with g_object_unref()
during
the next teardown phase. This is equivalent to calling g_test_queue_destroy()
with a destroy callback of g_object_unref()
.
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the object to unref |
Since 2.16
typedef enum { G_TEST_TRAP_SILENCE_STDOUT = 1 << 7, G_TEST_TRAP_SILENCE_STDERR = 1 << 8, G_TEST_TRAP_INHERIT_STDIN = 1 << 9 } GTestTrapFlags;
Test traps are guards around forked tests. These flags determine what traps to set.
Redirect stdout of the test child to
/dev/null so it cannot be observed on the
console during test runs. The actual output is still captured
though to allow later tests with g_test_trap_assert_stdout() .
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Redirect stderr of the test child to
/dev/null so it cannot be observed on the
console during test runs. The actual output is still captured
though to allow later tests with g_test_trap_assert_stderr() .
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If this flag is given, stdin of the forked
child process is shared with stdin of its parent process. It is
redirected to /dev/null otherwise.
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gboolean g_test_trap_fork (guint64 usec_timeout, GTestTrapFlags test_trap_flags);
Fork the current test program to execute a test case that might
not return or that might abort. The forked test case is aborted
and considered failing if its run time exceeds usec_timeout
.
The forking behavior can be configured with the GTestTrapFlags flags.
In the following example, the test code forks, the forked child process produces some sample output and exits successfully. The forking parent process then asserts successful child program termination and validates child program outputs.
static void test_fork_patterns (void) { if (g_test_trap_fork (0, G_TEST_TRAP_SILENCE_STDOUT | G_TEST_TRAP_SILENCE_STDERR)) { g_print ("some stdout text: somagic17\n"); g_printerr ("some stderr text: semagic43\n"); exit (0); /* successful test run */ } g_test_trap_assert_passed(); g_test_trap_assert_stdout ("*somagic17*"); g_test_trap_assert_stderr ("*semagic43*"); }
This function is implemented only on Unix platforms.
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Timeout for the forked test in micro seconds. |
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Flags to modify forking behaviour. |
Returns : |
TRUE for the forked child and FALSE for the executing parent process.
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Since 2.16
gboolean g_test_trap_has_passed (void);
Check the result of the last g_test_trap_fork()
call.
Returns : |
TRUE if the last forked child terminated successfully.
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Since 2.16
gboolean g_test_trap_reached_timeout (void);
Check the result of the last g_test_trap_fork()
call.
Returns : |
TRUE if the last forked child got killed due to a fork timeout.
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Since 2.16
#define g_test_trap_assert_passed()
Assert that the last forked test passed. See g_test_trap_fork()
.
Since 2.16
#define g_test_trap_assert_failed()
Assert that the last forked test failed. See g_test_trap_fork()
.
Since 2.16
#define g_test_trap_assert_stdout(soutpattern)
Assert that the stdout output of the last forked test matches soutpattern
.
See g_test_trap_fork()
.
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a glob-style pattern |
Since 2.16
#define g_test_trap_assert_stdout_unmatched(soutpattern)
Assert that the stdout output of the last forked test does not match
soutpattern
. See g_test_trap_fork()
.
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a glob-style pattern |
Since 2.16
#define g_test_trap_assert_stderr(serrpattern)
Assert that the stderr output of the last forked test matches serrpattern
.
See g_test_trap_fork()
.
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a glob-style pattern |
Since 2.16
#define g_test_trap_assert_stderr_unmatched(serrpattern)
Assert that the stderr output of the last forked test does not match
serrpattern
. See g_test_trap_fork()
.
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a glob-style pattern |
Since 2.16
#define g_test_rand_bit()
Get a reproducible random bit (0 or 1),
see g_test_rand_int()
for details on test case random numbers.
Since 2.16
gint32 g_test_rand_int (void);
Get a reproducible random integer number.
The random numbers generated by the g_test_rand_*() family of functions change with every new test program start, unless the --seed option is given when starting test programs.
For individual test cases however, the random number generator is reseeded, to avoid dependencies between tests and to make --seed effective for all test cases.
Returns : |
a random number from the seeded random number generator. |
Since 2.16
gint32 g_test_rand_int_range (gint32 begin, gint32 end);
Get a reproducible random integer number out of a specified range,
see g_test_rand_int()
for details on test case random numbers.
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the minimum value returned by this function |
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the smallest value not to be returned by this function |
Returns : |
a number with begin <= number < end .
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Since 2.16
double g_test_rand_double (void);
Get a reproducible random floating point number,
see g_test_rand_int()
for details on test case random numbers.
Returns : |
a random number from the seeded random number generator. |
Since 2.16
double g_test_rand_double_range (double range_start, double range_end);
Get a reproducible random floating pointer number out of a specified range,
see g_test_rand_int()
for details on test case random numbers.
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the minimum value returned by this function |
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the minimum value not returned by this function |
Returns : |
a number with range_start <= number < range_end .
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Since 2.16
#define g_assert(expr)
Debugging macro to terminate the application if the assertion fails. If the assertion fails (i.e. the expression is not true), an error message is logged and the application is terminated.
The macro can be turned off in final releases of code by defining G_DISABLE_ASSERT when compiling the application.
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the expression to check. |
#define g_assert_not_reached()
Debugging macro to terminate the application if it is ever reached. If it is reached, an error message is logged and the application is terminated.
The macro can be turned off in final releases of code by defining G_DISABLE_ASSERT when compiling the application.
#define g_assert_cmpstr(s1, cmp, s2)
Debugging macro to terminate the application with a warning message
if a string comparison fails.
The strings are compared using g_strcmp0()
.
The effect of g_assert_cmpstr (s1, op, s2)
is the same
as g_assert (g_strcmp0 (s1, s2) op 0)
. The advantage of this macro
is that it can produce a message that includes the actual values of s1
and s2
.
g_assert_cmpstr (mystring, ==, "fubar");
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a string (may be NULL )
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The comparison operator to use. One of ==, !=, <, >, <=, >=. |
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another string (may be NULL )
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Since 2.16
#define g_assert_cmpint(n1, cmp, n2)
Debugging macro to terminate the application with a warning message if an integer comparison fails.
The effect of g_assert_cmpint (n1, op, n2)
is the same
as g_assert (n1 op n2)
. The advantage of this macro
is that it can produce a message that includes the actual values of n1
and n2
.
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an integer |
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The comparison operator to use. One of ==, !=, <, >, <=, >=. |
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another integer |
Since 2.16
#define g_assert_cmpuint(n1, cmp, n2)
Debugging macro to terminate the application with a warning message if an unsigned integer comparison fails.
The effect of g_assert_cmpuint (n1, op, n2)
is the same
as g_assert (n1 op n2)
. The advantage of this macro
is that it can produce a message that includes the actual values of n1
and n2
.
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an unsigned integer |
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The comparison operator to use. One of ==, !=, <, >, <=, >=. |
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another unsigned integer |
Since 2.16
#define g_assert_cmphex(n1, cmp, n2)
Debugging macro to terminate the application with a warning message
if an unsigned integer comparison fails. This is a variant of
g_assert_cmpuint()
that displays the numbers in hexadecimal notation
in the message.
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an unsigned integer |
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The comparison operator to use. One of ==, !=, <, >, <=, >=. |
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another unsigned integer |
Since 2.16
#define g_assert_cmpfloat(n1,cmp,n2)
Debugging macro to terminate the application with a warning message if a floating point number comparison fails.
The effect of g_assert_cmpfloat (n1, op, n2)
is the same
as g_assert (n1 op n2)
. The advantage of this function
is that it can produce a message that includes the actual values of n1
and n2
.
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an floating point number |
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The comparison operator to use. One of ==, !=, <, >, <=, >=. |
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another floating point number |
Since 2.16
#define g_assert_no_error(err)
Debugging macro to terminate the application with a warning message if a method has returned a GError.
The effect of g_assert_no_error (err)
is the same
as g_assert (err == NULL)
. The advantage of this macro
is that it can produce a message that includes the error message and code.
Since 2.20
#define g_assert_error(err, dom, c)
Debugging macro to terminate the application with a warning message if a method has not returned the correct GError.
The effect of g_assert_error (err, dom, c)
is the same
as g_assert (err != NULL && err->domain == dom && err->code == c)
.
The advantage of this macro is that it can produce a message that
includes the incorrect error message and code.
This can only be used to test for a specific error. If you want to
test that err
is set, but don't care what it's set to, just use
g_assert (err != NULL)
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a GError, possibly NULL
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the expected error domain (a GQuark) |
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the expected error code |
Since 2.20
GTestCase* g_test_create_case (const char *test_name, gsize data_size, gconstpointer test_data, void (data_setupvoid) (), void (data_testvoid) (), void (data_teardownvoid) ());
Create a new GTestCase, named test_name
, this API is fairly
low level, calling g_test_add()
or g_test_add_func()
is preferable.
When this test is executed, a fixture structure of size data_size
will be allocated and filled with 0s. Then data_setup()
is called
to initialize the fixture. After fixture setup, the actual test
function data_test()
is called. Once the test run completed, the
fixture structure is torn down by calling data_teardown()
and
after that the memory is released.
Splitting up a test run into fixture setup, test function and
fixture teardown is most usful if the same fixture is used for
multiple tests. In this cases, g_test_create_case()
will be
called with the same fixture, but varying test_name
and
data_test
arguments.
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the name for the test case |
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the size of the fixture data structure |
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test data argument for the test functions |
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the function to set up the fixture data |
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the actual test function |
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the function to teardown the fixture data |
Returns : |
a newly allocated GTestCase. |
Since 2.16
GTestSuite* g_test_create_suite (const char *suite_name);
Create a new test suite with the name suite_name
.
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a name for the suite |
Returns : |
A newly allocated GTestSuite instance. |
Since 2.16
GTestSuite* g_test_get_root (void);
Get the toplevel test suite for the test path API.
Returns : |
the toplevel GTestSuite |
Since 2.16
void g_test_suite_add (GTestSuite *suite, GTestCase *test_case);
Adds test_case
to suite
.
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a GTestSuite |
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a GTestCase |
Since 2.16
void g_test_suite_add_suite (GTestSuite *suite, GTestSuite *nestedsuite);
Adds nestedsuite
to suite
.
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a GTestSuite |
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another GTestSuite |
Since 2.16
int g_test_run_suite (GTestSuite *suite);
Execute the tests within suite
and all nested GTestSuites.
The test suites to be executed are filtered according to
test path arguments (-p testpath
)
as parsed by g_test_init()
.
g_test_run_suite()
or g_test_run()
may only be called once
in a program.
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a GTestSuite |
Returns : |
0 on success |
Since 2.16